Imaginer des fonctionnalités pour la lecture numérique active

Forget about our romantic, endangered memories of “old book smell”. Most of my university books and manuals smelled of plastic, but that’s beyond the point. There are many ways in which the physicality of the support helps us handle knowledge: understanding and memorizing concepts, making connections, keeping references, aiding visual memory. There are as many, if not more ways in which a digital tool could do just the same, with the added benefit of being always with you(something a few 500-pages manuals cannot boost to be). And yet, it doesn’t.
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Yet, if we talk about active reading, many features are missing across all these apps. They concern the way we study, and the many tricks we use to understand, assimilate, and memorize written text. I tried to analyze how we approach the texts we use to study, how we use them, then listed some of the features I think are most needed.Chiara Lino, Unexploited design opportunities: Ebooks still suck for studying